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Offline NattyIced

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« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2006, 06:37:21 PM »
Kind of reminds me of the vehicle the Marines used in Aliens.

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« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2006, 06:52:55 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2006, 07:59:36 PM »
The Smokey and the Bandit T/Amaro!!!  I LIKE IT!!!
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« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2006, 08:31:06 PM »
The grill doesn't look Pontiac-y enough, but I think it looks pretty good.  Better than its Camaro incarnation.

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« Reply #19 on: May 06, 2006, 09:32:21 PM »
I like the new retro look, they have been getting to a point where every car had that bubble look and all looked the same.

Chrysler could really turn some heads with a new hemi cuda.
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« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2006, 12:06:19 AM »
Typically late-American in concept.  Over-weight, over-designed, needlessly complex, with a gigantic turkey decal on the hood.

Whatever happened to the virtues of simplicity?

Less is more.

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« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2006, 12:21:53 AM »
I like it, but I like this version better:


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« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2006, 12:37:44 AM »
I looks like a Hot Wheels car. I like a good "muscle car" but why they are scrapping the new GTO is beyond me. Its a nice ride with enough umph to get you a kick in the pants. BUT its still not like it should be.
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« Reply #23 on: May 07, 2006, 12:39:14 AM »
The pontiac mark on the front says Firebird ( lets not get into the big bird on the hood)... But whatever... An F car is and F car... camero... Firebird.. The only difference is pontiac sticks more plastic garbage on it...

Any how... Looks like the design guys at Chevy are making a half hearted attempt to follow Dodge's beautiful idea... Sadly, it looks like chevy kinda missed the mark and made a bastardized ugly bird/camaro and the Dodge kids hit the nail right on the head and drove it straight into hell

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« Reply #24 on: May 07, 2006, 12:57:18 AM »
Anyhow, the picture speaks for itself..

but the pontiac is 'confused'.  Its mixing about 3 different era's of car into one... The scoop is 70's, the B pillar is 60's, the front is modern.

Really, if you're going to go retro... pick a season, you can't cram every year of the car into one and expect it to be pretty.  Dodge did it right, they picked 1970 and they stuck to it and modernized it...

GM tried to cram a whole model history into a single car and it looks like a mutt.
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« Reply #25 on: May 07, 2006, 02:33:33 AM »
friggin americans....:t

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« Reply #26 on: May 07, 2006, 03:10:34 AM »
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The pontiac mark on the front says Firebird ( lets not get into the big bird on the hood)... But whatever... An F car is and F car... camero... Firebird.. The only difference is pontiac sticks more plastic garbage on it...

Any how... Looks like the design guys at Chevy are making a half hearted attempt to follow Dodge's beautiful idea... Sadly, it looks like chevy kinda missed the mark and made a bastardized ugly bird/camaro and the Dodge kids hit the nail right on the head and drove it straight into hell





They got it perfectly right!



Only gay euros should not like this car.

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« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2006, 03:21:29 AM »
I seen the pics of that trans am a while back.  

There not killin the gto.  There goin to restyle it thank god.  BUt it aint goin nowhere.  Chevy is killin the monte carlo this year so they will have room for camaro later.

I saw both the camaro and challenger inside and out at the nyc auto show last month.  The challenger is nice but they didnt change anything.  All the did was replace the metal with plastic and the interior has no life to it.  It looks like a chip foose car not a new challenger.  The camaro is different.  My friend has a 68 with a 454 and a turbo 400 i noe what a muscle car is all about :aok . Up close the car has what u except from a camaro.  I have a 86 and the models after mine i really dont like(there like freakin boats), they dont say muscle car but this new one does.  Its bulky where it needs to be and curvy where it needs to be.  It was hard to get up close to the thing cause there was a consist crowd around it.  U have to get up to the car in person to really breath it in.  Give it a chance cause i noe 9/10 of u didnt even see the thing up close.  The challenger wasnt that much of a big deal after u saw the camaro.  And could dodge really come out with it?  They got that ulgy "4 door" charger.  There supposed to give it a 2 door opition but i think they need to give the whole car a make over.  All it is is a over powered grocery getter.  If they come out with it which i doubt they will, they will prob make it a "special" edition car make like 500 of them and sell them for 45 grand.

Ford is the one to start the retro car thing.  First it was the thunder bird and they followed that with the mustang.  The gt500 is nice.  They had the black and gold one at the show that was in the paper, it was a sweet machine.

They black and gold firebird in the pic is what would happen if the new camaro and a 77 bandit edition made "love".  Thats what i wanted before i got my 86, a 77 or 78 trans am.  Ponitac doesnt have room for a firebird.  They would have to kill the gto and there not doin it.

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« Reply #28 on: May 07, 2006, 08:31:22 AM »
Pardon my french, but the Dodge's headlights eyebrow looks a bit like the ones ricers decal onto theirs.  Other than that it's nice.
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« Reply #29 on: May 07, 2006, 10:11:14 AM »
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I seen the pics of that trans am a while back.  

There not killin the gto.  There goin to restyle it thank god.  BUt it aint goin nowhere.  Chevy is killin the monte carlo this year so they will have room for camaro later.

I saw both the camaro and challenger inside and out at the nyc auto show last month.  The challenger is nice but they didnt change anything.  All the did was replace the metal with plastic and the interior has no life to it.  It looks like a chip foose car not a new challenger.  The camaro is different.  My friend has a 68 with a 454 and a turbo 400 i noe what a muscle car is all about :aok . Up close the car has what u except from a camaro.  I have a 86 and the models after mine i really dont like(there like freakin boats), they dont say muscle car but this new one does.  Its bulky where it needs to be and curvy where it needs to be.  It was hard to get up close to the thing cause there was a consist crowd around it.  U have to get up to the car in person to really breath it in.  Give it a chance cause i noe 9/10 of u didnt even see the thing up close.  The challenger wasnt that much of a big deal after u saw the camaro.  And could dodge really come out with it?  They got that ulgy "4 door" charger.  There supposed to give it a 2 door opition but i think they need to give the whole car a make over.  All it is is a over powered grocery getter.  If they come out with it which i doubt they will, they will prob make it a "special" edition car make like 500 of them and sell them for 45 grand.

Ford is the one to start the retro car thing.  First it was the thunder bird and they followed that with the mustang.  The gt500 is nice.  They had the black and gold one at the show that was in the paper, it was a sweet machine.

They black and gold firebird in the pic is what would happen if the new camaro and a 77 bandit edition made "love".  Thats what i wanted before i got my 86, a 77 or 78 trans am.  Ponitac doesnt have room for a firebird.  They would have to kill the gto and there not doin it.


Spoken like a true Chevy bias nut.
You talk to enough car guys and you find the Chevy crowd the most bais.
Most can never appreciate any other car not even from other gm products.
Where as other make followers can appreciate Chevy's stand outs.

The Challenger concept is what its suppose to be .. a salute to the 70 not all years of the Challenger.
Its been said the camaro concept is to much of a mishmash. It looks like 3  people were fighting about what year the car should resemble.

Ohh and I believe it was dodge that started it , not ford . Although the GT is probably the best at looking like its predicesor.

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